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Date:      Wed, 8 Apr 2015 10:22:54 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/ZFS on 9.3-RELEASE chews up memory with "wide" directories when calling readdir, etc; causes trap 12 panics
Message-ID:  <81474997-069A-4DA5-9BF7-1EC427D7FFEF@gmail.com>
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On Apr 8, 2015, at 9:15, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Garrett Cooper =
<yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>        Long story short, I had a lot of mail spooled up in =
/var/spool. When I did ls /var/spool, ZFS chewed up almost all 12GB of =
my memory in <10 mins (because there were enough files there) and the =
system eventually panicked because [I assume that a memory allocation =
failed and] a trap 12 panic was caught. I don=92t have the exact =
details, but it should be relatively easy to repro (YMMV if you have a =
boatload of RAM):
>>=20
>> repro_end=3D10000000000
>> for i in $(seq 1 $repro_end); do mktemp tmp.XXXXXXXXXXXX; done
>> ls
>>=20
>>        This might be ameliorated via r281026, but this change is only =
available in CURRENT (so far), and I haven=92t tested it.
>>        Are there any comments about this scalability issue with =
FreeBSD/ZFS?
>> Thanks,
>=20
> I spent the last ~ 24 hours creating 58,567,635 empty files in one
> directory.  I can ls it without crashing on a machine with 32 GB RAM.
>=20
> # /usr/bin/time -l ls /tmp/tmp | wc
>     1061.21 real       225.54 user        36.61 sys
>   9720268  maximum resident set size
>        28  average shared memory size
>         8  average unshared data size
>       128  average unshared stack size
>   2425013  page reclaims
>         0  page faults
>         0  swaps
>    108036  block input operations
>         0  block output operations
>         0  messages sent
>         0  messages received
>         0  signals received
>    108004  voluntary context switches
>      2428  involuntary context switches
> 58567635 58567635 644243985

Strange. I wish I could gather more details about how many files were =
located there. Distance and time that they were created might manner; in =
my case there were _many_ spooled up emails that hadn=92t been sent =
because I didn=92t take the time to fix my SMTP settings via =
comcast/gmail.

RAM amount might matter too. 12GB vs 32GB is a bit of a difference.

Thanks!

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